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four legs I should know something
As for the arteries, why, I might puzzle a little about them; but by the time I had taken off three or four legs I should know something about them.
— from Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

five leagues I still kept standing
However, as the weather was hazy, so as to prevent our seeing above four or five leagues, I still kept standing to the N.E. with a light breeze at south; and at noon Cape Palliser bore N. 72
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

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